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Fueled by Fury with Joan Takayama-Ogawa & Renee Tajima-Peña

2022年11月17日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join ceramics artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa and award-winning filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña for a conversation about using their anger at injustice to create powerful art that inspires social change. This conversation is presented in conjunction with the new exhibition, Joan Takayama-Ogawa: Ceramic Beacon, at the Craft in America Center. Image courtesy of Joan Takayama-Og...

Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Taiji Terasaki

2020年06月20日

All members are invited to meet artist Taiji Terasaki before our COVID-19 Community Heroes program at 2 p.m. for a virtual Members Only Meet-and-Greet. Hear more from Terasaki about his process of developing the Transcendients: Heroes at Borders exhibition for JANM and how he is staying creative in this time. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are required at the link, by email to memberevents@janm.or...

ONLINE Tea & Letter Writing: Building Connections

2020年05月06日

FREE Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM. As we continue to physically distance, we are reminded of the most vulnerable populations among us, especially our community seniors who have been safer at home, but isolated, for some time now and those ...

East West Players: A Writers’ Gallery Reading—"Panorama"

2018年10月16日

FREE JANM is pleased to host the East West Players’ reading of Panorama by Prince Gomolvilas. On a clear day in Rochester, New York, in 1871, atop an observation tower that used to stand on Mount Hope Cemetery’s highest point, thousands of people witnessed a remarkable phenomenon which came to be known as "The Rochester Mirage." Several days later, a group of locals returns to the scene of the strange si...

Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Joey Guila

2017年02月24日

JANM is pleased to host Comedy InvAsian, a new series of one-hour standup comedy performances that will be filmed in front of live audiences in our Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Come be a part of the audience as six of the nation’s most exciting Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) comedians take the stage. Joey Guila has been featured on Showtime, VH1, G4 Tech TV, and Myx TV, and was the headliner on the F...

JANM ANNOUNCES INTERIM PRESIDENT/CEO

2016年06月08日

Norman Y. Mineta, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum, today announced that Ann Burroughs has been named Interim President and CEO of the museum, effective immediately. For the remainder of his tenure—through the month of June—Dr. Greg Kimura, the outgoing President and CEO, will provide consultation and share institutional knowledge to ensure a smooth transition at the executive...

East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading—"The Piano"

2016年03月24日

FREE In this edition of A Writer’s Gallery, East West Players presents a reading of The Piano, written by Robert Kuang. An Asian-Jewish-American family collides with music, food, and identity crises, as the death of a Chinese patriarch forces three generations of Asian American women to live under the same roof for the first time. A powerful multigenerational drama about the complexities of the Asian Amer...

Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Making Waves"

2016年03月12日

Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed for an exclusive gallery tour entitled "Tender Views, Modern Expressions." Reed will provide an overview of Making Waves while focusing on the photographers who worked in Los Angeles, several of whom he knew personally. He will discuss the character of their work, which ranged from gentle scenes of lily pads to progressively modern abstractions, and their wide influence. Ree...

'TWICE BOMBED, TWICE SURVIVED' FILM TO BE SCREEN JANUARY 21

2012年01月18日

The gripping documentary, "Twice Bombed, Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", will be screened by the Japanese Americans National Museum on Saturday, January 21, beginning at 2 p.m. This program is sponsored by the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum. Hideo Nakamura’s film reveals a little known story connected to the ...

Judgments Judged, Wrongs Remembered: Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties Cases of World War II

2004年11月06日

Please refer to the November 5th event information.